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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (17 Oct 2019)

Dara Murphy: 122. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to an implementation of a section 37(a) in one part of the country, if and when he will be extending this nationwide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42753/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (17 Oct 2019)

Dara Murphy: 123. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a geographical breakdown of the ASD classes available nationally, both by county and by primary and secondary schools, will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42754/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (17 Oct 2019)

Dara Murphy: 124. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has carried out an analysis of demand for ASD classes nationally; if so, the figures by region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42755/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (2 Apr 2019)

Dara Murphy: 594. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if additional funding will be provided for the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme to Cork County Council; when this will be put in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15197/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Services for People with Disabilities (2 Apr 2019)

Dara Murphy: 595. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the ranking of a person on the list will be affected when Cork City Council takes over the waiting list for approved disabled persons grant applications on local authority properties; the measures in place to ensure that persons will not be disadvantaged by virtue of the boundary change between city and county; and if he...

Committee on Public Petitions: National Orchestras: Discussion (10 Oct 2018)

Dara Murphy: I welcome the witnesses. The timing is pertinent. It has been a very difficult number of years across so many parts of the State. To hear the Minister saying yesterday that the State has balanced its books should mean that we can be much more optimistic about how we support cultural and other very important parts of our State and how they function. Now is the time. We should all...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Accommodation Provision (15 May 2018)

Dara Murphy: 391. To ask the Minister for Health if there has been an audit or an assessment of the supply and demand for nursing home beds carried out in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21007/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Speeds (20 Feb 2018)

Dara Murphy: 463. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason there is poor broadband connectivity in an area (details supplied); when this issue will be rectified; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8132/18]

Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (7 Dec 2017)

Dara Murphy: Like other speakers I am very pleased to be able to make an intervention on this very important issue. Much reference has been made to the haste surrounding the debate but it is important to remember that we lived through this debate and finally the Lisbon treaty came into effect on 1 December 2009. We are living in an ever-changing world with very significant challenges and constantly...

Committee on Public Petitions: English Junior Certificate Examination: Discussion (22 Nov 2017)

Dara Murphy: I welcome Ms O'Sullivan and her colleagues. Without sounding too patronising, I compliment them on taking this initiative, which I am sure has taken up a lot of their time and energy. This is my first experience in my seven years as a parliamentarian to engage with people who are below the voting age, the issue of whether 16 year olds should have the right to vote being another area of...

Committee on Public Petitions: English Junior Certificate Examination: Discussion (22 Nov 2017)

Dara Murphy: The only comment I would add is that guidelines would be fine but, to date, the Department has kept a fairly distant approach to letting schools organise their own preparation examinations. There is an element of self-policing in terms of trying to give some guidance. I certainly believe the marking structure should be based on the marking structure of what we know of the examinations. We...

Committee on Public Petitions: Discontinued Mobility Allowance and Motorised Transport Schemes: Minister of State at the Department of Health (11 Oct 2017)

Dara Murphy: I thank the Vice Chairman. I did not realise that I would be first to comment. I am pleased to be a member of this committee. This is my first meeting and I look forward to working with all of the members. We all remember this from four or five years ago. Is the ruling of the Ombudsman disputed in any way? The Minister of State mentioned the question of front-line services and...

Committee on Public Petitions: Discontinued Mobility Allowance and Motorised Transport Schemes: Minister of State at the Department of Health (11 Oct 2017)

Dara Murphy: My last question was whether the Minister of State is consulting with the Ombudsman.

Topical Issue Debate: Migrant Crisis (1 Jun 2017)

Dara Murphy: The evidence the Deputy presented is not disputed. There is an acceptance there is very significant difficulty and abuse of civil and human rights of the people in Libya. Certainly it is going too far to say that any circumstance is better than drowning. We have seen the great work our navy has done. On the Deputy's specific point about how the aid and the programmes will be...

Topical Issue Debate: Migrant Crisis (1 Jun 2017)

Dara Murphy: I am glad to have an opportunity to address the House on this important matter. I thank Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan for raising it. I agree with her that everyone has been moved by the terrible images and distressing reports of men, women and children drowning in the Mediterranean. We all agree that such terrible and appalling incidents should not be happening on the doorstep of the EU in...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (23 May 2017)

Dara Murphy: The General Scheme of the Data Protection Bill is available on the website of the Department of Justice and Equality: www.justice.ie. It has also been forwarded to the Joint Committee on Justice and Equality for pre-legislative examination. The principal objective of the draft Bill is to give further effect to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), i.e. Regulation(EU) 2016/679 of 27...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Data Protection (18 May 2017)

Dara Murphy: The position is the Data Protection Commissioner acts independently in the performance of her tasks and exercise of her powers under the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003. I understand that the matter referred to by the Deputy has come to the attention of the Commissioner and that she has issued a statement in relation to the use of facial detection technology for advertising purposes. The...

Order of Business (9 May 2017)

Dara Murphy: That is four words.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Data Protection (2 May 2017)

Dara Murphy: The position is the Data Protection Commissioner acts independently in the performance of her tasks and exercise of her powers under the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003. As the Deputy may be aware, the new General Data Protection Regulation will enter into force in May 2018 and the Commissioner will continue to act in a completely independent manner under the new legislative regime which...

European Council: Statements (13 Apr 2017)

Dara Murphy: With specific reference to these guidelines, it has always been our intention to have separate reference to the issues regarding Ireland. Round one will deal with acquired rights, budgetary issues and the issues around Ireland. These issues will be discussed separately in advance of the new relationship. There are many complex questions regarding the European Union, including the...